What exactly is obedience?

I guess this topic touches on a lot of subjects and unknowns. With raising children, religion and of course the compasaty of the autisic mind.

My 8 year old son with autism had a melt down today because he didn't want to do what he was told. He trew and broke stuff again and I got really mad. I sent him to his room and I went to mine. All I could think of was "I'm tired of being a quite mom and letting him get away with stuff. Everyone else has to pay the price for his actions. And sometimes it's we literally have to go buy something and replace what he broke. And other people have had to go and replace things that he has broken.

But I keep coming back to "What do I really except from him? Of course what can I really do about it? I can't punish him cause one In today's world it really leaves parents no option except to "let kids be kids" and on the other hand does he really understand what he's doing?

I want him to at least be good a least at school. But I know his days may be numbered at a public school.

Our neighbors are all about there children being in complete obdeance. So much so that the husband still does thing for his parents all the time. But really do you want your children to be completely obedient or do you want them to be sincer in what they do? I mean god want us to be sincer in our doing and not just going thru the motions.

I remember hearing something like this from somewhere, you can only except as much obedience as you would give to god.

I talked to my grandparents about this issue during there vist out here for the summer. And really it all came down to was, how much does my son really understand?

Does he understand that other people have feelings? Since he can't really express his own feelings very well, maybe not. Does he even really care?

Please share your toughts.

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No Shampoo aka "going poo-less"

I first heard of "going poo-less" off of a podcast where Paul Wheaton and some lady named Jocelyn talk about there own experiences using, or should I say not using shampoo. What pecked my interest was when Jocelyn was talking about how she use to have problems with here scalp getting, I think she called it eczema. And having to use shampoo that was $15 a bottle.
I personally have had that experience. I got this area of my scalp that itched and was always raw or scabed over. I finally went to my doc and he said it was some kind of fungi and he told me to us this over the counter shampoo. It went away and hasn't come back yet. But boy oh boy what a pain.
I also read a article on Mother Nature Network called Bubble Trouble. Very good. She talks about how her hair evolved and mistakes she made with her hair. She said she was counseled to "shampoo" with conditioner ounce a week. Also she says that "brushing every single night makes her wavy hair too straight, but 100 strokes twice a week helps to distribute the natural oils evenly."
So after thinking about it and wondering about it...... alright I'll try it. So I'm going to write about my experience and post pics of my hair. I'm going to add updates as the weeks and months go by. That way my whole experience will be on one page. I like picture so Im going to be posting a pic every two weeks. We'll se if that's over kill or not.
So here is my hair now. It has shine, body, and it's wavey/Curley. Problems I have are: dandruff, itchy scalp, frizz (as you can see) and occasionally spots that fill like pimples.

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2 Week Update

I forgot to mention above that before I started doing this that I was only shampooing my hair every other day. So it's been 2 weeks now. The first week I was a little embarrassed by my hair and wore it up when I went to church. But this last Sunday I wore it down and my hair didn't feel so weird. My hair is diffently different. I noticed I don't have dandruff, my scalp has not been scratching my scalp. But I have noticed that weird tacky felling when I get my hair wet. I have been brushing my hair 100 times ounce a week and using just a quater size amount of conditioner ounce a week. As you can see from my pic below my hair still has body but is not so puffy. And you can see the waves in my hair more. It is still a little fuzzy at the top.

 

2 weeks

 

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Scraping of the wall paper in the kids room.

So i decided to final take the rest of the wall paper down in the kids room. Its a tall room with half of it done in wal paper. It was this striped wallpaper. I think is drove Caleb nuts, besause he tore the paper off around his bed. Aways so we pilled the rest of the top layer of paper off, then i went online to find a homemade wallpaper remover.

Half- and- half, Warm Water and vinager.

I sprayed it on the walpaper and let it sock in.

Then cause it not a chemicaly. I let Caleb scrap it off. He said it was his job. :)

The started are now finished

So im cleaning out storage and theres all these started or bought mateirals to do a project. so these are the projects that i finshed.

This is a soild piece of material that looks like a quilt. There small like for a doll. Has the little pillow and quilt. I finshed both of these in 1 1/2 days.

 This was in the leather crafts. Its a mini saddle kit. The design was started. I finshed that and stained it. I had to buy a skiveing knife and cement gule to finsh it. Got this all finshed in a few hours.

This is just a design that i cut down and made into a coaster.

Cleaning

Hermione was here for the weekend. And of course the kids were even crazier then they normaly are. I have so much stuff to do. I need to the basement and reorganize it. I wish it was a finshed basement. then i could put anything down there and not have to worry about it getting moldy and stuff would be able to touch the floor. I need to reorganize my Cross stitch cabinet. Oh boy so much to do and the kids wont let me.

I did some organizing down in the basement yesterday. Sorted out all my fabric and some that my mom had collected over the years. i put the scrap piecs in the binns by color. Im going to make a crazy quilt with all the scraps, since you can use pices down to an inch. Cant wait to get started. But i have to wait till all the other started projects are down. sigh....

So i found this chore list. I know, i know i need a chore list? But theres so much to do, and come on if i cleaned the whole house in one day i would ware my self out. So this broke up the whole house into 30min each weekday.

I found this on www.pinterest.com (which is awesome). This is the link to the actuall site, http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/search/label/Cleaning

Ok, so im going to go for now. Ill talk to you later.

Glasses

I was going to do laundry today, but it was suppose to rain. then it doesnt all morning and afternoon. I did look at the rader and it is suppose to start in a hour or so.
Caleb made it through his whole 1/2 day of preschool. The bus driver did tell me that he has been having more fits and getting mad alot more these past weeks. Not sure why. The only thing that has changed is that Aaron is here every weekend because his dad is over seas. Oh and Brian has moved to day shift at work. Other then that it's been the same.

Well it finely rained. It waited till we were pulling into the parking lot of the eye docs and then it poured. We ran inside, then the lights went off for 2 seconds then came back on. So i told the lady i was going to pay now incase the lights went off while Aaron was getting his glases fitted. Then it lightly rains until we have to go back to the car. Ahhhh...rain.

I'm Back

It's been awhile since i written. So Aaron's dad is in Afgagastan till maybe October. Caleb is suspected of being autisic, and Lillie is getting ready to turn 2. Oh my. Brian is working days now, ahhh. He gets to sleep in bed with me now. I have started driving around town now. Which is a big help since Brian is working days.

I made this this morning. I got the idea from www.etsy.comIt's great, now i dont have my socks in a pile on top of the dryer cause i have a bad habit of stacking stuff on the dryer.
I cleaned out my desk. my drawers were just stuffed with everything in them. everyone has a catch all table or drawer or a bowel. Mine is my desk. The drawers and the top.

Kathy came over today and toke Caleb and Lillie with her to spend the night at Uncle Brents. She lives in Indianapolis and has to come to Crawfordsville tomrrow away for a viewing. A husband of her cousin died this week. I heard that he got drunk and decided to drive a 4 wheller, which he has never driven before. So he ends up running into a tree and smacked his head on it. They tried to relive the swelling but i guess it didnt work.